*BSD and Solaris have done have run linux binaries for years. Doing it on Windows is a bit more impressive, but given that there is a POSIX subsystem, its no

*BSD and Solaris have done have run linux binaries for years. Doing it on Windows is a bit more impressive, but given that there is a POSIX subsystem, its not all that surprising. I didn't see any information about whether they do it using direct system call translation, or if they do it using shared library inter-positioning. In either case, its pretty cool!